penitentes

Accompanying the Kristos are hundreds of "flaggelants", or "penitentes" - hooded men who whip their own bloody backs with whips of bamboo and rope, as penance for sins.

WordPress.com News 2009

Accompanying the Kristos are hundreds of "flaggelants", or "penitentes" - hooded men who whip their own bloody backs with whips of bamboo and rope, as penance for sins.

The Australian | News | 2009

Accompanying the Kristos are hundreds of "flaggelants", or "penitentes" - hooded men who whip their own bloody backs with whips of bamboo and rope, as penance for sins.

NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2009

To the uninitiated foreigner the whole event's very strange, but stranger still, if you happen to be a Black African South American, one interviewed on España Directo a year back mentioned that when he first saw the "penitentes" coming toward him with their white robes and pointed hoods, he thought to himself that The Klan were coming to get him!

RenewAmerica 2009

There were men who walked these deserts a hundred years ago, the penitentes, chanting and fasting, scourging themselves with hemp whips, or whips made from the braided fiber of the yucca plant, or cord whips, la cuerda, a small whip of tightly knotted wool.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

He thought about the sensitives, preparing for psychic war, and he thought about the penitentes, men in black hoods dragging heavy wooden crosses through the desert, a hundred years ago, or fifty years, and lashing themselves with sisal and hemp, all that Sister Edgarish stuff, and speaking fabricated words—the maunder of roaming holy men.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

He thought about the sensitives, preparing for psychic war, and he thought about the penitentes, men in black hoods dragging heavy wooden crosses through the desert, a hundred years ago, or fifty years, and lashing themselves with sisal and hemp, all that Sister Edgarish stuff, and speaking fabricated words—the maunder of roaming holy men.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

There were men who walked these deserts a hundred years ago, the penitentes, chanting and fasting, scourging themselves with hemp whips, or whips made from the braided fiber of the yucca plant, or cord whips, la cuerda, a small whip of tightly knotted wool.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

There were men who walked these deserts a hundred years ago, the penitentes, chanting and fasting, scourging themselves with hemp whips, or whips made from the braided fiber of the yucca plant, or cord whips, la cuerda, a small whip of tightly knotted wool.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

He thought about the sensitives, preparing for psychic war, and he thought about the penitentes, men in black hoods dragging heavy wooden crosses through the desert, a hundred years ago, or fifty years, and lashing themselves with sisal and hemp, all that Sister Edgarish stuff, and speaking fabricated words—the maunder of roaming holy men.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008